Articles tagged "jane austen"

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (trailer)

by Katharine Wray

[20.Aug.09] :. A literary/pulp mashup. At its best? That remains to be seen. Author Seth Grahame-Smith must have some real cajones to tamper with a such loved classic as Pride and Prejudice by adding a...

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Austen’s Quirks

by Lara Killian

[21.Jul.09] :. Not unlike a pile of reanimated zombie corpses, Jane Austen’s works, themes and characters are being resuscitated all over the place. Hacked up, monster-mashed together with more contemporary...

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Books Review

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith

by Erik Hinton

[21.Apr.09] :. This book combines love of ironic bric-a-brac with love of things that can passed off as “indicies of the post-modern condition”, or something similar.

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News

Sweet Jane: `The Complete Austen’ comes to PBS

by Rick Porter [Zap2it.com (MCT)]

[11.Jan.08] :. As seems to happen every few years, Jane Austen got hot again in 2007, with one feature film (“Becoming Jane”) depicting her life and another (“The Jane Austen Book Club”)...

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Film Review

Becoming Jane

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Aug.07] :. Julian Jarrold's fictionalized biopic offers up big-boomy melodrama, full of broken hearts, romantic montages, and predictable plot turns.

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‘Jane junkies’ enthused over screen portrait of young Austen

by Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[1.Aug.07] :. The amiable body of men and women have assembled at the Ritz at the Bourse theater in Philadelphia. They have made pilgrimages from other counties—one even interrupting a vacation in New...

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